TELEPHONE MESSAGE TO M. I. KALININ AND L. B. KAMENEV

Dictated:Dictated by phone on July 19, 1921Published:First published in 1933 inLenin Miscellany XXIII.

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Kalininhas told me of the idea to make a special
collection of one pound per pood of collected grain in aid of
the starving in the Volga area, Let me know whether this
matter has been pushed through and when you intend
to have it passed by the Presidium of the All-Russia
C.E.C.[1]I think we should: 1) have this passed at once;

2) demand, as a matter of the greatest urgency, that each
uyezd should send a few carloads of grain to the Volga
area, and that every consignment of grain must be
accompanied by two or three local peasants who will see for
themselves the scale of the disaster and tell their fellow peasants
about it;
3) we should consider the institution of some kind
of order or honorary cross for intensified assistance to the
starving in the Volga area.

V.Ulyanov(Lenin)Chairman, C.P.C.

[1]OnAugust 1, 1921, the Central Famine Relief Commission under
the All-Russia C.E.C. issued an appeal to the peasants and all
toiling citizens of the R.S.F.S.R., urging a contribution for the
famine-stricken areas of one pound per pood of threshed grain.
On August 4, the Presidium of the All-Russia C.E.C. adopted a
decision on deducting, for the benefit of the starving, one per
cent per pood of foodstuffs procured through commodity
exchange (published inIzvestia VTslKNo, 172 on August 6,
1921).